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How to build a meaningful career
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Notes
Meaning in a career:
- Money
- Community: physical or virtual
Promo is a compliment
Over a ~30 year career: only C has survived; we're all amateurs
Avoid comparing, give yourself grace
Space / time to take rest
Losses happen, it's part of the process
Be deliberate and intentional
Accept the failures, understand them
Luck = opportunity & preparation
Balance between grinding and rest
Money is an acceptable motivator
Do stuff that matters
Technical resilience / grit
- can land differently
Avg career = ~40 years
- As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it -- Antoine de St Exupery
Growth happens when you're stretching but not drowning
There is no effort without error
Goals first, plans third
Build a meaningful career
- Avoid comparison
- Live intentionally
- Give yourself grace
- Do hard work
- embrace the unknown
- your motivation is yours and yours alone